Thomas Barnouin

Thomas Barnouin (1981-) was an Islamic State commander during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Barnouin was born in France in 1981, and he converted to Sunni Islam in 2000 and became an Islamist. He had links to fellow radicals Mohamed Merah and Fabien Clain, and he travelled to Syria in 2014 to join the Islamic State. He became a jihadist commander in the group, and he was suspected of involvement in the November 2015 Paris attacks. On 28 December 2017, he was captured in Syria by Kurdish YPG forces as Barnouin and fellow French IS fighters Romain Garnier and Thomas Collange headed towards the Iraqi border.